Posts Tagged ‘jobs’

State Department: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Only Create 35 Permanent Jobs
By Zoe Schanger
When the State Department released their report on the Keystone XL pipeline last month, news media focused on the report’s conclusion that the pipeline would not significantly worsen carbon pollution. The finding was broadly declared a win for advocates of the project, who are now imploring the White House to approve it.
But buried in the 11-chapter report was a less sunny detail: the Keystone XL
... Full Story

Unemployment Rate Would be 7.1 Percent Without Government Cuts
March 11th, 2013
By Jason Sattler
One of the biggest Republican myths of the last four years is that the government has been exploding in size. The truth is that federal, state and local governments have cut more than 750,000 jobs since June of 2009.
If those jobs hadn’t been lost, the unemployment rate would now be 7.1 percent, according to the Labor Department.
The total number of people employed by the government
... Full Story

Mitt Romney’s ‘new math’ for jobs plan doesn’t add up
By Glenn Kessler
Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs when President Obama couldn't. First, my energy independence policy means more than 3 million new jobs, many of them in manufacturing. My tax reform plan to lower rates for the middle class and for small business creates 7 million more. And expanding trade, cracking down on China and improving job training takes us to over 12 million new jobs.”
—
... Full Story

By Josh Knauer
As a software entrepreneur, I find it ironic to see people going online to rail against taxes and government spending. The Internet grew from government research financed by earlier generations of taxpayers. So did computers, GPS technology and many other technologies we take for granted today.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) we access from our phones, computers and cars was developed and is still operated by the Department of
... Full Story

To the Editor,
Improvements in information technology have made it easy and profitable for American corporations to shift jobs overseas to the emerging (BRIC) countries .
Our two major candidates for President have very different approaches to increasing jobs here. Both approaches will create jobs, but the jobs will be quite different.
ROMNEY: Bring American salaries and benefits down to a level competitive with those in the BRIC countries. Eliminate any
... Full Story

By Brian Beutler
Last week we brought you this chart, demonstrating that the unemployment rate under President Obama is coming down fairly quickly — though not as quickly as it did under President Reagan in the months before he won a landslide re-election in 1984.
Here’s a major reason why.
Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis illustrates a key difference between Reagan’s first term and Obama’s: the pliancy of the Congresses they had to work
... Full Story

Working Families Mid-Session Report
Mike Cerbo
Executive Director
Colorado AFL-CIO
Midway through 120 days of the 2012 legislative session of the Colorado General Assembly the Colorado AFL-CIO wanted to provide an overview of the accomplishments and disappointments with legislation pertaining to jobs and the economy.
The good news: the economy is starting to improve. The bad news: opponents of working families are not helping and often actively
... Full Story

FACT CHECK: You can't have it all, sorry
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — Is there any impulse greater in politics than to promise people the sun and the moon?
Each in their own way, the Republican candidates heading into Super Tuesday primaries are telling Americans they can have "it all" — plentiful energy without pain at the pump, jobs without deeper debt, thriving factories like the days of yore, a renaissance at every dusty
... Full Story

The Whoppers of 2011
The year's worst political deceptions, from both sides.
Summary
Despite what you may have heard in 2011:
The new health care law won’t cost many jobs (and they’ll be poorly paying jobs at that).
Republicans aren’t proposing to “end” Medicare (and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has signed onto a modified version of the GOP plan).
Most of the “millionaires” who would pay higher tax rates under a Democratic proposal aren’t job-creating small-business
... Full Story

Tea Party Group Urges Small Businesses ‘Not To Hire A Single Person’ To Hurt Obama
By Marie Diamond
Congressional Republicans have acted shocked and offended at Democrats’ suggestions that they are intentionally sabotaging the economy to try to win back the White House in 2012. Republicans have refused to pass President Obama’s jobs plan — which experts estimate will create at least 1.9 million jobs — and proposed an alternative plan that
... Full Story